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Contents
I. Installing Chakra II. Getting Started II.1. Basic Features II.2. Desktop Editor III. Advanced Features III.1. Custom Icons III.2. PlugIns III.3. External Widgets IV. PlugIn Documentation IV.1. Wallpaper Changer

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I. Installing Chakra
First off, make sure you have a programm which allows you to open and extract ZIP archives. New operating system come with an integrated ZIP support, but programms like 7zip extend the support to several other archive types such as RAR, 7z and TAR.

There are two editions of Chakra available: Full and Lite. The only difference between these two editions is that the Full edition contains all PlugIns I created. They are already pre-installed. At the moment, these PlugIns are - Album Art Wallpaper - Travel Mode - Wallpaper Changer - Startup Actions - Event Manager The Lite edition contains the Event Manager PlugIn only.

After you have chosen the edition you want to install, open the archive and extract its contents to X:\System\Flash UI\ (where X: is the drive letter of you Cowon player)

After that, open the 'Flash UI' folder and rename the file 'mainmenuN.swf' to mainmenu1/2/3.swf, depending on which mainmenu you want to replace. If you didn't know there are three different mainmenus you can use, read your players manual about this topic. If you did so and the default mainmenu still is shown, make sure you are in the correct mainmenu. Another reason may be that your operating system doesn't show file extension and you added the .swf extension to the mainmenu file regardless. If this is the case, the mainmenu file must be named 'mainmenu1/2/3' of course.

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II. Getting Started

II.1. Basic Features

If you use Chakra the first time, you'll see this screen.

The bar at the top, the infobar, shows general information such as the current time, the battery state and the volume.

The bar at the bottom is the menubar. It contains buttons to access all functions of Chakra.

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1. Menu 2. Icons / Widgets 3. Launcher Button

4. Shutdown 5. Switch Menu 6. Settings

7. Music/Radio Bar (+ integrated music player)

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1. Menu

This is the main menu where you can access Chakra's settings, set the sleep timer, toogle bluetooth and change the volume and brightness. The version of Chakra installed on your Cowon player is shown, as well as the date that Chakra version was published.

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2. Icons / Widgets

In this menu all available icons and widgets are shown. In case there are two or more pages, there is an indicator on the rigth side which shows the current page. Icons and widgets which are already in use are semi-transparent. In order to add an icon to your desktop, press and hold it until the menu closes itself and you can drag the icon around. More about this feature, the Desktop Editor, later.

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3. Launcher Button
The Launcher Button is a button you can assign a certain action to. By default, this button opens the Lock Screen. In the settings you can change the action to something else.

4. Shutdown
Opens a popup where you can shut the player down, set it to sleep mode or open the lock screen.

5. Switch Menu
Opens a popup where you can go to another menu. If you didn't know there are multiple mainmenus you can use, read your player's manual.

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6. Settings

This is a quick reference for all available settings. PlugIn settings aren't documented. About the various button types: (This list is about the right side of the buttons) - Numeric value: Slide the button to change the setting's value - String value: Tap the button to open a list of available options - Arrow: Opens a sub category - Glowing/gray circle: Tap to enable (glowing) or disable (gray) the setting - Nothing: Miscellaneous type; may open the keyboard and you have to enter something

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General Resume Last Screen [Switch Button] If enabled, the last screen (music, videos, pictures,...) is shown on startup [Slider Button] Set the number of available desktops. If there are icons or widgets on a desktop you deleted, they are removed automatically. [Switch Button] [Option Button] Last used: Start the last mode (radio, music) you used on startup Music: Always start the music mode on startup Radio: Always start the radio mode on startup [Slider Button] The volume limit feature prevents that you exceed the limit you set here. [Switch Button] [Switch Button] If enabled, labels with a text being too long pauses for a second when it exceeds the bounds. [Switch Button] The current track being played is shown every time you enter Chakra. (Works only in music mode of course) [Option Button] Large Small

Desktops

Icon Labels Default Mode

Volume Limit

Use Volume Limit Extended Text Scroller

Track Notification

Menubar: Icon Size

Music Player: Single Tap "Gesture"

[Switch Button] If enabled, the music is played/paused if you tap the integrated music player's album art area. [Switch Button] If enabled, the desktop's content is moved down if you hide the menubar.

Menubar: Move Desktop on hide

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Security Unlock Method [Option Button] Android Pattern Hold Rotate Shake Slide [Misc Button] The Android Pattern works similar to Android's unlock pattern. Press and hold a dot and draw a pattern. If no pattern is set, you can unlock the player by entering any pattern. [Switch Button] [Input Button] Set the password you have to enter if the password protection is enabled. [Switch Button] If enabled, you have to enter a password after unlocking the player. [Switch Button] If enabled, the password is only requested on startup after unlocking the player. [Switch Button]

Configure Android Pattern

Show on Startup Password

Password Protection Enabled

Request Pwd on Startup only

Show Album Art as Wallpaper

Launcher Button Action [Option Button] Launch Screen Run Flash File Special [Option Button] *all available screens* [Input Button] The file you set here must be located in X:\Flash\ (where X: is your Cowon player)

Screen

Flash File

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Special

[Option Button] Lock Shutdown Sleep

Widget Settings Slideshow Widget [Subcategory Button]

Slideshow Widget Use Slideshow Folder [Switch Button] You can use a specific folder which contains pictures you want to show as slideshow. Requirements for this folder are: - Two sub folders: '150x110' and '210x150' - Must be located in X:\Pictures\ (where X: is your Cowon player) [Input Button]

Set Slideshow Folder

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7. Music/Radio Bar (+ integrated music player)

The way to use the regular music/radio bar isn't explained, it is easy enough.

The integrated music player:

In music mode you can use the integrated music player. Swipe up to open it. The visibility state is saved; Example: If you go to another menubar page, the player is closed automatically, and if you go back to the music bar, the music player is re-opened. You can use the basic left/right swipe gestures to go to the next or previous track and tap the album art to play/pause the music. To see options for playback, eq and other things, tap the button with the arrow on the seek bar.

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II.2. Desktop Editor

You can start the Desktop Editor by pressing and holding an icon or widget until the buttons in the menubar change and you can drag the icon or widget around. The screenshot above shows how the Desktop Editor looks like. The first button in the menubar opens the icon/widget menu, the second one exits the Desktop Editor and the third one changes the grid. You can choose between a small grid, a large grid and no grid. It has no effect on widgets.

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The buttons at the bottom change when you drag an icon/widget. If you drop the icon/widget over either one of the two arrows, the icon/widget is moved to the next/previous desktop. If you drop it over the X, it is removed.

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A useful feature is the possibility to create folders. Drop an icon over another one, and a folders is created which contains both icons. To add another icon, you can drop it over the folder, and to remove an icon from the folder, drag it out of the folder area (the black panel). You can rename a folder using the 'edit title' button. This feature works with icons and Custom Icons.

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III. Advanced Features

III.1. Custom Icons
Custom Icons are icons not included in the UCI, or in other words: Custom Icons are usercreated icons. The first thing you need is an icon in two variations: One with and one without label. The naming scheme of these pictures is the following one: The icon without label is '[name].png', the one with label '[name]__l.png'.

Put them into X:\System\Flash UI\Chakra\Custom Icons\ (where X: is your player). Then open the file 'custom_icons.xml' in X:\System\Flash UI\Chakra\ with a text editor. For every icon you have create an entry in <icons>...</icons> with the following scheme: <icon name="name" type="type" file="file" /> Name: A unique name for the custom icon Type: 'Launcher', 'Flash' or 'Command' File: Filename of the file the icon opens. If the type is 'Launcher', the file must be in 'System/Flash UI/', otherwise it has to be put into 'Flash/'. Custom icons can be found in the icon menu.

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III.2. PlugIns
PlugIns are small extensions for Chakra which can have various features. There is for example the PlugIn 'Startup Actions' which allows you to start the music playback on startup automatically. The PlugIn 'Wallpaper Changer' lets you assign a wallpaper to a certain desktop or show random wallpapers.

The installation process is similar to the one of Custom Icons. Usually, just extract the contents of the archive (which contains the PlugIn) into X:\System\Flash UI\Chakra\PlugIns'. Then, open the file 'plugins.xml' in X:\System\Flash UI\Chakra\ which may look like this: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <plugins> <plugin file="event_interface.swf" /> <plugin file="wallpaper_changer.swf" /> </plugins> Just add a new line between '<plugins>...</plugins>' and insert <plugin file="filename.swf" /> where filename is the filename of the plugin.

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III.3. External Widgets

Usually, the archive the external widget contains has a folder in the root. Put this folder into X:\System\Flash UI\Chakra\Widgets\. If the widget is in the archive's root, create a new folder in in X:\System\Flash UI\Chakra\Widgets\ and name it like the SWF file in the archive. Example: SWF file name: 'widget.swf' -> folder name 'widget'. Then open the file 'widgets.xml' in X:\System\Flash UI\Chakra\ and add a new line between '<widgets>...</widgets>': <widget id="id" /> (where 'id' is the widget's folder name)

Example: You installed a new widget 'test'. Then the line you add to the XML file must be '<widget id="test" />'.

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IV. PlugIn Documentation

IV.1. Wallpaper Changer
Wallpapers have to be put into X:\System\Flash UI\Chakra\PlugIns\res__wallpaper_changer.swf\ and can be JPG or PNG files. Open XML file 'wallpapers.xml' in X:\System\Flash UI\Chakra\PlugIns\res__wallpaper_changer.swf\ and add for each wallpaper the following line between <wallpapers></wallpapers>: <wallpaper file="filename" /> In order to assign a wallpaper to a certain desktop, just add 'desktop="N"' to the wallpaper's entry you want to assign to a desktop. N is the number of the desktop. Example: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <wallpapers> <wallpaper file="download.jpg" desktop="3" /> <wallpaper file="fgd4r346.jpg" /> <wallpaper file="Find_your_way_1280 x 960.jpg" desktop="1" /> </wallpapers>